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Big Funky wrote:

> Please don't also forget that some teams in the 8th to 10th area would
> also like some games against the top teams. How are lower ranked teams
> suppose to improve if they don't play the top teams. It may well be boring
> for UTI/Catch to have to play Sneeeky's/BAF but we need games like that to
> learn from and gain experience. I know you wont have forgotten this but
> surely for the sake of improving British Ultimate on a wide level the top
> teams could put up with the odd easy game on a Saturday.

As I understand it, the point of the tour is to improve the level of ultimate
byplaying teams of a similar standard as to yourselves.  There are plenty of
other
tournaments that teams can attend which are more open based such that higher
ranked teams play lower ranked teams.  The tour was designed to prevent
the easy Saturday games making it hard for teams for the whole weekend!!!

Sean